Joomla methods to render active and inactive pagination objects in the template

pagination.php

/**
 * Renders an active item in the pagination block
 *
 * @param   JPaginationObject  $item  The current pagination object
 *
 * @return  string  HTML markup for active item
 *
 * @since   3.0
 */
function pagination_item_active(&$item)
{
  $class = '';

	// Check for "Start" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JLIB_HTML_START'))
	{
		$display = '<i class="icon-first"></i>';
	}

	// Check for "Prev" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JPREV'))
	{
		$display = '<i class="icon-previous"></i>';
	}

	// Check for "Next" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JNEXT'))
	{
		$display = '<i class="icon-next"></i>';
	}

	// Check for "End" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JLIB_HTML_END'))
	{
		$display = '<i class="icon-last"></i>';
	}

	// If the display object isn't set already, just render the item with its text
	if (!isset($display))
	{
		$display = $item->text;
		$class   = 'hidden-phone';
	}

	return "<li class=\"" . $class . "\"><a title=\"" . $item->text . "\" href=\"" . $item->link . "\" class=\"pagenav\">" . $display . "</a></li>";
}

/**
 * Renders an inactive item in the pagination block
 *
 * @param   JPaginationObject  $item  The current pagination object
 *
 * @return  string  HTML markup for inactive item
 *
 * @since   3.0
 */
function pagination_item_inactive(&$item)
{
	// Check for "Start" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JLIB_HTML_START'))
	{
		return '<li class="disabled"><a><i class="icon-first"></i></a></li>';
	}

	// Check for "Prev" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JPREV'))
	{
		return '<li class="disabled"><a><i class="icon-previous"></i></a></li>';
	}

	// Check for "Next" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JNEXT'))
	{
		return '<li class="disabled"><a><i class="icon-next"></i></a></li>';
	}

	// Check for "End" item
	if ($item->text == JText::_('JLIB_HTML_END'))
	{
		return '<li class="disabled"><a><i class="icon-last"></i></a></li>';
	}

	// Check if the item is the active page
	if (isset($item->active) && ($item->active))
	{
		return '<li class="active hidden-phone"><a>' . $item->text . '</a></li>';
	}

	// Doesn't match any other condition, render a normal item
	return '<li class="disabled hidden-phone"><a>' . $item->text . '</a></li>';
}